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Most public housing units are provided with indoor laundry racks. Linear blocks are even provided with clothes drying cum burglary bars facilities.
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Apart from these, "pole-socket" type clothes-drying facilities are also erected on the external walls of most public housing blocks. Tenants may use poles of a length not more than 2m, or install one of the following approved types of clothes-drying facilities at their own expenses -
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aluminium laundry rack with cord pulleys;
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movable drying pole with hooks;
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bamboo pole with a retractable cord;
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semi-circular tube circuits clothes rack;
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rail-type drying rack;
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retractable laundry rack; and
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sliding clothes rack.
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Besides, tenants may apply to install parallel or perpendicular laundry rack to replace the conventional "pole-socket" laundry facility, under the Laundry Racks Subsidy Scheme. Tenants may approach their respective Estate Management Office/Property Management Office/Property Services Management Office for details of the scheme.
New rental flats completed after mid-2004 will be installed with these parallel or perpendicular laundry racks on external facade, as a big step forward of the Housing Authority in facility improvement.
Tenants of Harmony blocks New Cruciform blocks and Non-standard blocks completed after 2003 may apply to install laundry rod or nylon rope at the external walls outside the living room. Such installations shall comply with all applicable guidelines and specifications issued by the Housing Authority. Tenants are responsible for the safe installation, as well as proper maintenance of the laundry rod or nylon rope installed during their terms of tenancy.
To show care for the elderly, the Housing Authority will provide households with all members aged 60 or above with aluminium laundry racks free of charge. Besides, laundry rooms for washing and drying clothes are also provided in Housing for Senior Citizens situated in Small Household Blocks and Ancillary Facilities Blocks.
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